The loudness thing seems to be getting worse, the older I get. Either they are cranking up the volume, or I'm getting more cranky:)
My girlfriend and I seldom go to the movies any more, simply because of the noise level. Not of the movie, but of the people in the cinema. They make cellphone calls, they yap constantly throughout the movie, they insist on buying the sweets with the noisiest bloody wrappers, and then spend 10 minutes trying to open the damn things quietly. My gf even stood up one and asked one guy who'd just finished his coke, and was slurping out the last few drops over a period of minutes, whether she could buy him a new coke, since his one was obviously finished. This had the intended effect, and garnered a few laughs as well, but that's not what going to the cinema should be about!
The adverts don't bug me so much, though I wish there were fewer ads and more trailers to upcoming movies. What REALLY ticks me off though, is the people who time their arrival to skip the commercials. This means that just as the movie is starting, you suddenly get this influx of lemmings that all need to find their seat in the pitch dark, tripping over you, blocking your view and spilling stuff all over you in the process. And there's always some tit who either forgets to turn their cellphone off, or thinks the rules don't apply to them.
What would do it for me is some sort of thing that would allow them to bar the doors 5 minutes before the movie starts, so that these idiots are locked out. I know this is unfeasible, coz people with small bladders need to come and go, and the lemmings always need to go and resupply themselves with noisy food. Oh, and the cellphone users do need to be able to leave the cinema to take that important call (if the call was that important, what are they doing sitting in a cinema?!).
What made people think that evolution stopped with the modern era?
Arrogance?
Most people I deal with (especially the Americans:p) are already convinced that they are best versions of humanity that can ever be.
Think about it. We all deal with people that are convinced they're God's gift to mankind. This is especially true of attractive people. Dumb ones too. Hot and dumb are the worst. They're already convinced they're at the top of the evolutionary ladder.
Or at least they are until someone hotter and dumber comes along:)
Our unpleasant little 3rd world country has the dubious honour of being the rape capital of the world, and, I believe, the murder capital too. Child rape (over 22000 children sexually abused last year) and AIDS is a far bigger problem than having to deal with silly little things like terrorism.
Terrorism? Pah! We don't need no steenking terroristas! More people are murdered here, in crime related incidents, than died on 9/11. Usually terrorists are fighting for some cause or other. Our animals don't need a cause. If they like your car/watch/bag/shoes they'll just take it, and put a bullet or 5 in you, whether you put up any resistance or not. It's so bad that incidents like that don't even usually make it into the newspaper. Half the time, the cops don't even bother to take a statement. It's not their fault, they're just so backlogged that an armed robbery is low priority.
Oh, and communications of any sort is so ruinously expensive here that you probably won't be able to afford to surf long enough for any patterns to emerge. Broadband? What's that? Only about 100 000 people out of about 45 million can afford it. Oh, and our bandwidth is usually capped as well. Anything more than 3GB a month is seen as abuse of the system, and you're cut off.
Used to be we could blame all this type of crap on apartheid, sanctions and post-apartheid confusion. Not any more. Our health minister eschews anti-retrovirals and is promoting garlic and olive oil as a cure for AIDS. Our communications minister has no idea how much it costs to make a phone call, and our president spends more time outside South Africa than in it. Oh, not to mention our (now ex-) deputy president Jacob Zuma has recently been charged with fraud AND rape.
Yes, you'd definitely want to move here. There's so many other problems that worrying about monitoring your surfing habits takes a back seat to your basic survival. It's not "1984" here, it's the frikkin Dark Ages all over again...
I've heard of a chargeback. In fact, from a retailer's point of view, this side of things is open to abuse too. I used to sell software from a website I ran, and I'd regularly get people who'd attempt chargebacks after having purchased the software. All I'd have to do is prove that I'd sent a registration code to the person (via email, usually a chunk of server log would do the trick), and the chargeback would go away.
Apparently this is a recognised problem for sellers tho, among 'soft' products like this.
People are chancers, what can you do?:)
A wise old owl
Sat in an old oak,
And the more he heard,
The less he spoke.
The less he spoke,
The more he heard,
Why can't we all be more like that wise old bird?
...if they actually read the error message returned by the server, they'd probably get an idea of what went wrong. However it's a sad fact that the same 99% of users won't bother to read the error message, because they'll assume it's too technical for them anyway.
Either that or they're too damn lazy, and it's easier to call an IT person to get them to sort it out. It's easier to pick up the phone and waste the time of someone else than to have to actually think. Of course, they go all to pieces when I am on vacation:)
There was a 60 Minutes peice on a country in South Africa, I think it was Mozambique, but I don't remember.
Just a note, in passing: Mozambique is not in South Africa. Neither is Zimbabwe. Neither is Swaziland. They have their own governments, currencies, and GDPs. They are in southern Africa. Admittedly Swaziland is 'embedded' in South Africa. It's landlocked, but it is NOT South African.
What really grates my carrot is that a lot of foreigners, especially Americans don't realise that South Africa is a country in its own right. Most South Africans are getting a little tired of being lumped together with the other third world kleptocratic governments here in Africa. We ain't there. Not yet anyway:)
they will have to have seperat entrances for men and woman as people are uncomfy with a member of th oposite sex seeing them in the all together(not everyone mind you)
I've actually found that when I get this message, I go into the extensions window and right click each extension. I say "disable", at which point it tells me it will be disabled the next time I start. I go back in, choose "Enable" this time, and it tells me it'll be re-enabled. After restarting FF, most extensions work properly without a reinstall. Sometimes I have to reconfigure, sometimes not. YMMV.
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My girlfriend and I seldom go to the movies any more, simply because of the noise level. Not of the movie, but of the people in the cinema. They make cellphone calls, they yap constantly throughout the movie, they insist on buying the sweets with the noisiest bloody wrappers, and then spend 10 minutes trying to open the damn things quietly. My gf even stood up one and asked one guy who'd just finished his coke, and was slurping out the last few drops over a period of minutes, whether she could buy him a new coke, since his one was obviously finished. This had the intended effect, and garnered a few laughs as well, but that's not what going to the cinema should be about!
The adverts don't bug me so much, though I wish there were fewer ads and more trailers to upcoming movies. What REALLY ticks me off though, is the people who time their arrival to skip the commercials. This means that just as the movie is starting, you suddenly get this influx of lemmings that all need to find their seat in the pitch dark, tripping over you, blocking your view and spilling stuff all over you in the process. And there's always some tit who either forgets to turn their cellphone off, or thinks the rules don't apply to them.
What would do it for me is some sort of thing that would allow them to bar the doors 5 minutes before the movie starts, so that these idiots are locked out. I know this is unfeasible, coz people with small bladders need to come and go, and the lemmings always need to go and resupply themselves with noisy food. Oh, and the cellphone users do need to be able to leave the cinema to take that important call (if the call was that important, what are they doing sitting in a cinema?!).
just my 2 cents
This just in: It was subsequently shot by Dick Cheney...
Arrogance?
Most people I deal with (especially the Americans :p) are already convinced that they are best versions of humanity that can ever be.
Think about it. We all deal with people that are convinced they're God's gift to mankind. This is especially true of attractive people. Dumb ones too. Hot and dumb are the worst. They're already convinced they're at the top of the evolutionary ladder.
Or at least they are until someone hotter and dumber comes along :)
I wonder how he would feel if HIS job was the one being outsourced... they could hardly do a worse job :)
so I guess the DNA that's just "lying around" for free must be some sort of open source framework? :)
Actually, the dogs are the real overlords.
Check out a story by Eric Russell (ca 1950) called "Into your tent I'll creep".
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue205/books2.html
I'll ask your mother :)
there's a typo in the bible
:)
it should have been "...and the geek shall inherit the earth".
e.g. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=1 3&art_id=vn20051215065506468C620082/
or
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=1 3&art_id=qw1133699580568B265/
Surely someone who rapes or murders a baby should be terminated with extreme prejudice?
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=1 3&art_id=vn20051202115945207C367037/
Terrorism? Pah! We don't need no steenking terroristas! More people are murdered here, in crime related incidents, than died on 9/11. Usually terrorists are fighting for some cause or other. Our animals don't need a cause. If they like your car/watch/bag/shoes they'll just take it, and put a bullet or 5 in you, whether you put up any resistance or not. It's so bad that incidents like that don't even usually make it into the newspaper. Half the time, the cops don't even bother to take a statement. It's not their fault, they're just so backlogged that an armed robbery is low priority.
Oh, and communications of any sort is so ruinously expensive here that you probably won't be able to afford to surf long enough for any patterns to emerge. Broadband? What's that? Only about 100 000 people out of about 45 million can afford it. Oh, and our bandwidth is usually capped as well. Anything more than 3GB a month is seen as abuse of the system, and you're cut off.
Used to be we could blame all this type of crap on apartheid, sanctions and post-apartheid confusion. Not any more. Our health minister eschews anti-retrovirals and is promoting garlic and olive oil as a cure for AIDS. Our communications minister has no idea how much it costs to make a phone call, and our president spends more time outside South Africa than in it. Oh, not to mention our (now ex-) deputy president Jacob Zuma has recently been charged with fraud AND rape.
Yes, you'd definitely want to move here. There's so many other problems that worrying about monitoring your surfing habits takes a back seat to your basic survival. It's not "1984" here, it's the frikkin Dark Ages all over again...
I've heard of a chargeback. In fact, from a retailer's point of view, this side of things is open to abuse too. I used to sell software from a website I ran, and I'd regularly get people who'd attempt chargebacks after having purchased the software. All I'd have to do is prove that I'd sent a registration code to the person (via email, usually a chunk of server log would do the trick), and the chargeback would go away. :)
Apparently this is a recognised problem for sellers tho, among 'soft' products like this.
People are chancers, what can you do?
A wise old owl
Sat in an old oak,
And the more he heard,
The less he spoke.
The less he spoke,
The more he heard,
Why can't we all be more like that wise old bird?
TFA did mention that telecommuting improved the situation for cube farm dwellers...
...not that I know much about being a sniper, but wouldn't it be possible for the spotter just to shoot the robot?
...if they actually read the error message returned by the server, they'd probably get an idea of what went wrong. However it's a sad fact that the same 99% of users won't bother to read the error message, because they'll assume it's too technical for them anyway. :)
Either that or they're too damn lazy, and it's easier to call an IT person to get them to sort it out. It's easier to pick up the phone and waste the time of someone else than to have to actually think. Of course, they go all to pieces when I am on vacation
There was a 60 Minutes peice on a country in South Africa, I think it was Mozambique, but I don't remember.
:)
Just a note, in passing: Mozambique is not in South Africa. Neither is Zimbabwe. Neither is Swaziland. They have their own governments, currencies, and GDPs. They are in southern Africa. Admittedly Swaziland is 'embedded' in South Africa. It's landlocked, but it is NOT South African.
What really grates my carrot is that a lot of foreigners, especially Americans don't realise that South Africa is a country in its own right. Most South Africans are getting a little tired of being lumped together with the other third world kleptocratic governments here in Africa. We ain't there. Not yet anyway
...is they can just continue to dump their garbage from the various space missions and the problem will take care of itself.
There's an interesting article on Clay Shirky's site, that deals with this very topic:O wn+Worst+Enemy%22
:)
http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html or via Google
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22A+Group+is+its+
How there's some difficulty in separating the wheat from the chaff
...but ugly nerds still need not apply.
And what's more, they probably have oil and Weapons Of Mass Destruction...
what would they do with the cross-dressers? :)
I've actually found that when I get this message, I go into the extensions window and right click each extension. I say "disable", at which point it tells me it will be disabled the next time I start. I go back in, choose "Enable" this time, and it tells me it'll be re-enabled. After restarting FF, most extensions work properly without a reinstall. Sometimes I have to reconfigure, sometimes not. YMMV.